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Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, this collection of short stories contains all the ingredients you'd expect from Irvine Welsh. Here he revisits some well-known characters such as Begbie, 'Juice' Terry Lawton and Albert Black as well as introducing a whole host of unforgettable new ones.

The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. God turns Boab Coyle into a house-fly, The Acid House is a bizarre, disturbing and hilarious collection from one of the most uncompromising and original writers around.

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A play from the author of Trainspotting Within the sound-proofed walls of a disused recording studio, a score is being settled. Two inner city low-lifes take the law into their own hands to satisfy their craving for fun, fear and a freakish sense of justice. "You'll Have Had Your Hole" premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and toured internationally - although it was banned in Belgium.

Irvine Welsh, el autor de "Trainspotting", prefiere hablar de sí mismo como de un «activista cultural» antes que escritor. Y los críticos de la revista ID, que suelen ser árbitros muy exigentes de las últimas tendencias, le han definido como el «más vital, el más subversivo de los autores contemporáneos». En "Éxtasis", tres narraciones tenuemente unidas por la química (la de las pastillas y la de los cuerpos), Irvine Welsh vuelve a demostrar s...

The story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects, Glue is about the loyalties, the experiences, and the secrets that hold friends together through three decades. The boys become men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, with corkscrew curls and sticky fingers, Billy the boxer, driven, controlled, playing to his strengths, Carl, the Milky Bar Kid, drifting along to his own soundtrack, and the doomed Gally, exceedingly thin-skinn...

In a dark and disturbing, often scabrously funny novel about the abuse of everything and everybody, the author of the international sensation "Trainspotting" introduces readers to Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest, one of the most compellingly misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction.